Joyce's city
Subtitle: history, politics, and life in Dubliners
By: Jack Morgan
Edition: 1st printing.
Publisher: University Of Missouri Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780826220455
Subjects: Social conditions; Modernism (Literature); Criticism and interpretation; History
Description: "Joyce's City, by Jack Morgan, includes groundbreaking new interpretations of the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners while exploring the issue of colonialism and the nuanced way in which the historical and the personal intertwine"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dubliners overall : a walk-about; title: Something coming over him : Joyce's Gothic and "The sisters"; title: When first my way to fair I took : mission to Araby; title: Rogue narration in "Two Gallants" and Séamus Ennis's "The dairy maid"; title: The hope and the pride : "Clay"; title: Adulterated presence : "A little cloud" and "A painful case"; title: Washington Irving's Sketch book and Joyce's "The dead"; title: Queer choirs : sacred music, Joyce's "The dead", and the sexual politics of Victorian aestheticism.